And so anti what Jesus has declared. Deuteronomy 15:9; 1 Samuel 18:9). (Carson), ii. Peter asks a word from his Master, and leaves the ship to join Him on the water. No. Ministers call them into the vineyard, to do their work; death calls them out of the vineyard, to receive their penny: and those to whom the call into the vineyard is effectual, the call out of it will be joyful. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. WATCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THE CHALLENGE WAS Hey, Im Tia and my aim is to travel the world with my camera and of course my wonderful partner is coming along and enjoying the ride with me ! That they might possibly be outstripped by their successors in profession, and, though they were before others in profession, might be found inferior to them in knowledge, grace, and holiness. They did not understand what was happening, but they could see in every line of Jesus' body the struggle of his soul. But this is enough to silence all murmurs and objectors, that God is sovereign Lord of all, and may do what he will with his own. If we compare the eighth chapter, for example, with the corresponding circumstances, as far as they appear, in the gospel of Mark, we shall find the latter gives us notes of time, which leave no doubt on my mind that Mark adheres to the scale of time: the design of the Holy Ghost required it, instead of dispensing with it in his case. And after the supper He took the cup, likewise and said, this cup is a new covenant in my blood, which is shed for the remission of sins, and as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death, until He comes"( 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 ). Then, alas! A ransom is something paid or given to liberate a man from a situation from which it is impossible for him to free himself. But when he came to the first, they supposed that they should have received more; but they likewise received every man a penny. Now the parable: A landowner went out early in the morning (6 am) to hire laborers for his vineyard. They wanted Jesus with a royal command to ensure for them a princely life. Luke-Acts Follow Christ's journey to the Cross. And I do believe that in communion there should always be healing services, where people as they take the broken bread and remember the suffering of Jesus Christ, by faith receive the result of that suffering; the purpose for which God allowed Him to be suffered, and receive healing and strength in your body. It is as if Jesus was going to gather in upon himself every possible kind of physical and emotional and mental suffering that the world could inflict. c. Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant: In the Kingdom community, status, money, popularity should never be the prerequisites for leadership. (iv) Here, also, is the infinite compassion of God. God does not look on the amount of our service. It is often more agonizing to contemplate the painful future than it is to actually live it. Matthew 20:16-20 New International Version 16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time 17 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. iii. Under grace, we cant come to God complaining, Dont I deserve better than this; because God will reply, Does this mean that you really want Me to give you what you deserve?. Anyone who took this parable as a practical basis for employment would soon be out of business." The world will respect, and admire, and sometimes fear, the man of power; but it will love the man of love. Had all the sinners that ever lived in the world been consigned to hell, they could not have discharged the claims of justice. The impression is that the landowner was surprised to find people idle, because he had plenty of work to give them. i. They knew that they were the chosen people, nor would they ever willingly forget that choice. The second lesson is even greater--all God gives is of grace. Now as they went out of Jericho, a great multitude followed Him. It is a saying of R. Simeon ben Jochai (d). The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, But among my followers service alone is the badge of greatness. And you guessed it already its a quote from the bible "so the last shall be first & the first last"which of course made me think of a competition type challe. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why have you been standing here idle all day? They said to him, Because no one hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.. Abstulit, sed et dedit--He hath taken away; but he originally gave. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. He went to live in a six foot by six-foot hut in a Tokyo slum. Not only were they healed, but they also followed the One who did great things for them. In the next scene, then, we have the disciples as a whole tried by a sudden danger to which their sleeping Master paid no heed. Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. And I believe that we can believe and trust Jesus Christ for physical healing, as well as spiritual healing. "Oh, you bet you, we're able." For less than $5/mo. Jesus of course was talking about His crucifixion and His death. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. And if those who in the last moment come into the kingdom of God, God rewards them, and they receive the reward for their place in the kingdom. It is incontestably true, that God can do no wrong. And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard ( Matthew 20:1-2 ). The priest, in chap. If this be a sound judgment, the comparison of the first chapter of Mark affords decisive evidence that the Holy Ghost in Matthew has taken the leper out of the mere time and circumstances of actual occurrence, and has reserved his case for a wholly different service. Time would fail now to dwell on this chapter, interesting as it is. This would not be a legal claim on man, but the scattering of good seed, life and fruit from God, and this in the unlimited field of the world, not in the land of Israel merely. Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. . Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner, Whatever is right I will give you whatever is right you will receive, Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first, They supposed that they would receive more, equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. Being in the right state of mind to do the Lords work is a gift of grace. I injure no one, and have a right to do what I will with my own." When do you suppose these conversations actually occurred, if we go to the question of their date? Men were in the grip of a power of evil which they could not break; their sins dragged them down; their sins separated them from God; their sins wrecked life for themselves and for the world and for God himself. 9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. i. And now as they depart from Jericho. Every opportunity to serve is a gift of His grace. Though he vainly thought, that if those few were but two, they were himself and his son. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.. Little faith leaves us as fearful for ourselves as dim witnesses of His glory whom the most unruly elements obey. a. 45. Descending then upon the plateau, He delivered what is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount. There is nothing more tragic in this world than a man who is unemployed, a man whose talents are rusting in idleness because there is nothing for him to do. i. It is the power of grace. Matthew 20:16 The New King James Version (NKJV) 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. Rudolf Bultmann writes: "In the Cross of Christ Jewish standards of judgment and human notions of the splendour of the Messiah are shattered." In calling the labourers, they must begin from the last, and so to the first. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and you've made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the heat of the day. Not even their wonderful "attitude" entitled them to a day's pay. A daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage. Poetical Books The true disciple rests easy in the assurance that because his pay is from a Master of grace, it will be gracious. Of course, both do preserve chronological order when it is compatible with the objects the Holy Spirit had in inspiring them; but in both the order of time is subordinated to still greater purposes which God had in view. "And Jesus heard their cry and stood still. (Matthew 20:24-28) The disciples reaction; Jesus sets forth true greatness. Through the day, the landowner went to the place where the laborers gathered, found some standing idle in the marketplace, and hired them to do the work in his vineyard. Prophets If those who trusted in themselves that they were wise and righteous would not have Him, He would call even a publican on the spot to be among the most honoured of His followers, and would not disdain to be their joy when they desired His honour in the exercise of His grace. Take notice of the care with which the Spirit of God here omits all reference to this: "And a certain scribe came." In the eighth chapter of Matthew as it tells of them bringing all of their sick and those who were diseased to Jesus, and He healed them, every one, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, "He in His own body bore our sufferings." [There is what I call a clear, unmistakable note of time.] Matthew did not wish to show James and John guilty of worldly ambition, and so he puts the request into the mouth of their mother rather than of themselves. He would send fit messengers, nor would the work be done till the rejected Messiah, the Son of man, came. What an anticipation of the walk by faith, not by sight, in which the Gentiles, when called, ought to have glorified God, when the rejection of the Messiah by His own ancient people gave occasion to the Gentile call as a distinct thing! And who knows, but what they may have put her up to it, because when Jesus asked the question, they're ready to respond. Before dinner starts, hide your nerf guns, then start the soundtrack to Mr. & Mrs. Smith. By His stripes ye are healed, spiritually, yes, but I do not think that it can be limited to spiritual only, the whole context, and especially Matthew eight would extend it also to physical healing. And He said to her, What do you wish? She said to Him, Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom.. And He had compassion upon them, and healed them. It probably was no more than a grave though passing difficulty, which he desired to have cleared up with all fulness for their sakes, as well as his own. How many millions does the long-suffering of God lead to repentance! He had been there before. "Our Daily Homily: Matthew-Revelation" Volume 5 (Westwood, New Jersey: Revell, 1966), Poole, Matthew "A Commentary on the Holy Bible" Volume 3 (Matthew-Revelation) (London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1969), Spurgeon, Charles Haddon "Commentary on Matthew: The Gospel of the Kingdom" (London: Passmore and Alabaster, Paternoster Buildings, 1893), Spurgeon, Charles Haddon "The New Park Street Pulpit" Volumes 1-6 and "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit" Volumes 7-63 (Pasadena, Texas: Pilgrim Publications, 1990). The market-place was the equivalent of the labour exchange. The request of James and John not unnaturally annoyed the other disciples. It is a saying of R. Simeon ben Jochai F4. They had certainly done nothing to merit a day's wages. Gregory the Great took the picture to even more grotesque, almost revolting, lengths. The fact is, beloved brethren, there is but one Jesus; and whoever it may be, whether John the Baptist, or the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, after all it is divinely-given faith which alone sustains: else man has to learn painfully somewhat of himself; and what is he to be accounted of? It is not only the fact that God slighted matters of prescriptive ordinance because of the ruined state of Israel, who rejected His true anointed King, but there was this principle also, that certainly God was not going to bind Himself not to do good where abject need was. 748.]. The very next scene, the case of Jairus, the ruler, shows it. The fact is, in judging others we judge ourselves. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard . It is clear that the unclean spirit, returning, brings idolatry back again. It is a picture of what was about to take place when the Lord Jesus, quitting Israel and the earth, ascends on high, and all assumes another form not the reign upon earth, but intercession in heaven. "That ye may know it (then saith He to the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house." Apply to the Son of David; lose not a moment; he is passing by, and thou art passing into eternity, and probably wilt never have a more favourable opportunity than the present. They may come at the beginning of their life, in their youth, in adulthood, in old age, or at the very end. In Matthew 12:1-50 we find not so much Jesus present and despised of men, as these men of Israel, the rejectors, in the presence of Jesus. If you do, you have a different concept of God than I do. In Mark 2:1-28 it says, "And again he entered into Capernaum." For many be called, but few chosen.The warning is repeated after the parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:14), and as it stands there in closer relation with the context, that will be the fitting place for dwelling on it. To eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man. So translated into our present day, an average day's wage for a laborer maybe twenty-five dollars or so. Using the term "elect," Titus 1:1 reinforces the idea that God separates some few from the many who are called: "Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's . And they would lay this leather whip across the back, and it was so designed, that when they pulled it back up to rip up pieces of flesh.The purpose of the scourging was the third-degree Roman style. It was very different with the hired day-labourers. That's one of the two. Nevertheless, His ear was open to the call on behalf of Israel perishing, dying, dead. Inattention to this has perplexed many. To him who compares this with Luke 6:1-49, there need not remain a question as to the identity of the scene. So, then, we learn that the mother of James and John was named Salome, and that she was the sister of Mary the mother of Jesus. He said, "Call those fellows to me." Jesus came to give his life a ransom for many. Seemingly, the disciples did not really listen when Jesus said these things. It is tragic that we have gotten so far away from the concepts that Jesus taught. The Spirit of God has been pleased to cull and class facts otherwise unconnected; for here follow conversations that took place a long time after any of the events we have been occupied with. And he said, "If a person eats or drinks in an unworthy manner, he is eating and drinking damnation to his own soul"( 1 Corinthians 11:26 ). And they went their way. The question fairly arises, Why it is that the Holy Ghost has been pleased so remarkably to leave time out of the question in this chapter, as well as in the next? Start for FREE. He promises, First, A penny,Matthew 20:2; Matthew 20:2. [2.] It is an evil eye, which is displeased at the good of others, and desires their hurt. And yet in spite of that the disciples are thinking of a Kingdom. James was the first of the apostolic band to die a martyr ( Acts 12:2). The Campus Martius was the grand field in which they were disciplined: there, they accustomed themselves to leaping, running, wrestling, bearing burdens, fencing, throwing the javelin, c., and when, through these violent exercises, they were all besmeared with dust and sweat, in order to refresh themselves, they swam twice or thrice across the Tyber! NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. ii. and when they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples [in both the parables and the explanations alluding to what we possess in Matthew 13:1-58.]. These men were hired labourers; they were the lowest class of workers, and life for them was always desperately precarious. He was there for the express purpose of glorifying God. Now if you go back to the last verse of the previous chapter, you'll find this same statement. The apostles were then sent thus, no doubt, forerunners of those whom the Lord will raise up for the latter day. This doth not prove that the reward of our obedience to God is of works, or of debt (no, it is of grace, free grace,Romans 4:4), or that there is any proportion between our services and heaven's glories; no, when we have done all, we are unprofitable servants; but it is to signify that there is a reward set before us, and a sufficient one. I say not how fax he had realized this profound truth; I say not that he could have defined his thoughts; but he knew and declared His command of all as truly God. iv. I. Historical Books The Whole Bible It is a very significant story, for it paints a picture of the spirit and of the attitude of mind and heart to which the most precious gifts of God are open. And it really was a heavy bondage trip. The indignation of the ten doubtless sprang less from humility than jealousy plus fear that they might lose out. (Carson). James was the first martyr among the apostles, and John was the only apostle to not die through martyrdom though not from a lack of trying. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. Here, too, these Pharisees question and reproach His grace, when they see the Lord sitting at ease in the presence of publicans and sinners, who came and sat down with Him in Matthew's house. The Lord works in delivering power; but withal the power of Satan fills and carries away the unclean to their own destruction. But nothing turned aside the purpose of God, or the activity of His grace. That was all over for the moment through Israel's blind sin; He was going to suffer, not yet reign, at Jerusalem. i. Has nothing yet had power to engage us to sacred service? Let them recognize the power that banished the leprosy, and the grace withal that touched the leper. The Challenge Of Following Jesus (8:18-22) The Call Of Matthew (9:9-13) Moved By Compassion (9:35-38) . The dispensational aim here leads to a more manifest disregard of the bare circumstance of time than in any other specimen of these gospels. ( Matthew 20:16) The parable applied: the principle of God's reward. Thus, the present dealings of God in grace, the actual shape taken by the kingdom of heaven, the calling of the Gentiles, the formation of the Church, are all passed completely over. It was the creature doing his best, yet proving that he loved the creature more than the Creator. Note, All that by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality, shall undoubtedly obtain eternal life (Romans 2:7), not as wages for the value of their work, but as the gift of God. Whatever is right I will give you whatever is right you will receive: The landowner promised the earliest workers a days wage (a denarius a day). Parallel use in Matthew 19:30 where the closing expression of chapter 19 opens the parable in chapter 20. The men who were standing in the market-place were not street-corner idlers, lazing away their time. c. They likewise received a denarius: Yet the men hired first early in the day, and who had worked all day got paid exactly what the landowner had promised them (a denarius a day, Matthew 20:2). In the end of this chapter (15) is another miracle of Christ's feeding a vast multitude. It was as Son of David that they addressed Jesus. Matthew 20:16 in all English translations. But Jesus called them unto him, and he said, You know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. Fasting, indeed, would follow when the Bridegroom was taken from them. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point It is not the amount of service given, but the love in which it is given which matters. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? Probably thisto teach us that men who have wrought in Christ's service all their days may, by the spirit which they manifest at the last, make it too evident that, as between God and their own souls, they never were chosen workmen at all. is written by Phil Ware and is available in book form. Not so. He does not now compare the Jews to the Gentiles, (as in another passages) nor the reprobate, who swerve from the faith, to the elect who persevere; and therefore the sentence which is introduced by some interpreters, many are called, but few are chosen, does not apply to that point. Matthew 20:16 New International Version 16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Read full chapter Matthew 20:16 in all English translations Matthew 19 Matthew 21 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. Most clearly it is not so much a question of sin in the aspect of uncleanness (typifying deeper things, but still connected with the ceremonial requirements of Israel, as we find from what our Lord said in the chapter to the cleansed leper). General Epistles "On his first night he was asked to share his bed with a man suffering from contagious itch. Here we see the worldly ambition of the disciples in action. He knew what they needed and what they wanted, but God still wants us to tell Him our needs as a constant expression of our trust and reliance on Him. (Matthew 20:1-2) A landowners workers early in the morning. (ii) There is an equally definite warning to the Jews. They drew up by tribes, and lots were drawn to determine in what order every tribe should present its soldiers. And so they didn't really remember that He said He was going to rise the third day, until after the resurrection. That was a test of his faith. The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16); Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection (Matthew 20:17-19; Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34); Greatness is Serving (Matthew 20:20-28); Two Blind Men Receive Their Sight (Matthew 20:29-34). Finally, this parable that illustrates the principle that Gods manner of rewarding is not like mans practice of giving rewards. When a person's ministry gets so great, and they become so prominent that they lose touch with people, and they can no longer minister to people's individual needs, their ministry has become greater than their Lord. It is a direct violation of both the two great commandments at once; both that of love to God, in whose will we should acquiesce, and love to our neighbour, in whose welfare we should rejoice. And He prophesied so accurately the things.First of all, He is going to be betrayed. Or is your eye evil because I am good? And when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. See Matthew 19:27-29. for many be called, but few chosenThis is another of our Lord's terse and pregnant sayings, more than once uttered in different connections. Then the mother of Zebedees sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him. b. All our service is already due to God; it belongs to Him. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? No matter when a man comes to Christ, he is equally dear to him. Pentateuch He also strongly claimed his right to do what he wanted with what was his. ; Continuity with Matthew 19 He could and did form His instruments according to His own sovereign will. A daily devotional about God's power for our battles. 22 But Jesus answered by saying to . That is on the debit side of the account of the disciples; but there is much on the credit side. The money was paid by the overseer, but he was standing by enjoying the scene. (Bruce). This is a wonderful, simple question God has not stopped asking. But he answered, and said unto them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: did you not agree to work for a penny? Because Matthew's object is the display of the change of dispensation through, or consequent on, the rejection of Jesus by the Jews. The Lord then had been shown such as He was towards Israel, had Israel in their leprosy come to Him, as did the leper, even with a faith exceedingly short of that which was due to His real glory and His love. Pentateuch Minor Prophets He does not come to be served, but to serve. In Matthew it is their mother. ESV Text Edition: 2016. A great tempest. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried out all the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. The pattern is the Son of man saving the lost. vii. When they had divided among them the command of the four legions to be formed, the consuls summoned to the capitol, or Campus Martius, all the citizens who, by their age, were obliged to bear arms. When the account was taken; when the evening was come, then, as usual, the day-labourers were called and paid. So the last shall be first - This is the moral or scope of the parable.
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